On the 10th (the day after Philips escape
attempt) CNN cited an unnamed "US defense official" confirming that Bainbridge
is [present tense] "within a few hundred yards" of the
lifeboat, but the CNN report does not specify when "is" was. Is this a reference
to the time of Philips' escape attempt, which several sources are reporting as
occurring within a few hundred yards of the Bainbridge?

Around midnight, Phillips leaped off and
began swimming for freedom, officials told ABC News. The U.S. destroyer
Bainbridge is anchored a few hundred yards away. [My
copy here.]

Which cannot be completely accurate because
there is no way the Bainbridge was anchored, which first of all makes no sense
(or how could it maintain any kind of position with respect to the unanchored
life boat, and second is contradicted by contemporaneous pictures, showing the
Bainbridge and the lifeboat both motoring at slow speed about 2 hundred yards
apart at 6AM on the morning of the incident (which if it was not the exact time
of the incident, was not long after).

Navy News Service photographs of the USS
Bainbridge and the Maersk-Alabama lifeboat containing Captain Philips and the
four pirates

The Navy News Service "Current Collection"
photo pages showing the Bainbridge and the lifeboat on the morning of Captain
Philips escape attempt (4-9-09) are
here and
here. If these pages ever disappear, my copies are here and here.